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During the strike, FairPoint hired replacement workers and there were widely documented customer service delays. Barry Sine, an analyst at Drexel Hamilton, says he believes it'll take a month to a month-and-a-half for the company's workforce to restore service quality to pre-strike levels.

Peter Keefe, a FairPoint worker in Lewiston, Maine, said Tuesday that he thinks unionized workers are "going to have a lot of messes to clean up."

FairPoint disagrees about the extent of problems. A spokeswoman says contract workers provided "superb" support of the network during the strike.